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My Take
Kelly Pavlik is a fighter I associate with a very particular blue-collar grit. The Youngstown, Ohio backstory is almost too on-the-nose, a Rust Belt kid punching his way out, and his 2007 demolition of Jermain Taylor to unify the middleweight titles was genuinely thrilling. Winning the Ali-Frazier Award that year says everything about how exciting his fights were. What stays with me, though, is how his career tapered after losing to Sergio Martinez in 2010, and the personal struggles that followed. He's a reminder that boxing gives and takes in equal measure. At his peak, though, he was must-watch.
Overview
Kelly Robert Pavlik (born April 5, 1982) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2012. He won the unified WBC, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal middleweight titles by defeating Jermain Taylor in 2007, and made three successful defenses before losing them to Sergio Martínez in 2010.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kelly Pavlik
- Name (Japanese)
- ケリー・パブリク
- Reading
- けりー・ぱぶりく
- Born
- April 5, 1982 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Dog
- Origin
- Youngstown, Ohio, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- boxer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Lowellville High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- WBO World Middleweight Champion
- WBC World Middleweight Champion
- The Ring World Middleweight Champion
- 2007 Ali–Frazier Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.